Forward Deployed AI Engineer

JLL supports the Whole You, personally and professionally.

Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology to our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people in our industry; and we support them through professional growth, flexibility, and personalized benefits to manage life in and outside of work. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades, and technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, we empower you to shape a brighter way forward so you can thrive professionally and personally.

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

JLL \| Full\-Time

About the Role

• *JLL is rolling out AI agents directly into the business:** automating workflows, supporting decision\-making, and integrating with the systems that run them.

You will own your assigned business area as a one\-person engineering team. The Center of Excellence in our central AI team gives you the methodology, the platform, and the patterns; the business gives you the problems, the SMEs, and the appetite for change. Your job is to turn that into shipped agents and MCP integrations, then hand mature work off to platform and operations as it stabilizes.

We expect engineers at this level to operate with AI tools as a primary part of their workflow. Your leverage comes from the hooks, skills, workflows, and automations you install to ship safely to production. The leverage in this role is AI, not headcount.

What You'll Do

Build and ship agents for the business, in close partnership with business SMEs and operators.

• *Stand up MCP servers and connectors:** pre\-production first, then through CDR into production.

Bootstrap skills, integrations, and evals on top of JLL's AI platform (LLM gateway, shared RAG services, MCP toolchain).

Run workshops with business teams, teach them to use Claude Code, and translate their workflows into agent skills.

Hand mature systems off to platform and operations teams once they outgrow the bootstrap phase.

Feed patterns, anti\-patterns, and platform gaps back into the Center of Excellence so the next FDE moves faster.

Must Have Experience

Shipped production agents using Claude Agent SDK, MCP, or an equivalent stack.

Production code in at least one of Python, Node, or .NET, with comfort moving across the others.

• *Worked with diverse data stores:** relational, NoSQL, object/blob, vector, and document.

• *Operated end\-to\-end as a one\-person team:** design, ship, support, hand off.

Traits

Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable in the room with non\-engineers.

Pragmatic judgment on when to ship, when to harden, and when to hand off.

Systems thinking with a focus on failure modes; AI writes most of the code, you own it.

Comfort with tasking and ability to run multiple agents in parallel as part of daily workflow.

Why This Role

JLL. A Fortune 200 company and a global leader in commercial real estate, with the stability of a $20B\+ business and the resources to invest seriously in AI.

The team. You sit at the seam of the business, product, and engineering, with a direct line into JLL's central AI platform via the Center of Excellence. The work is visible from business leadership on down.

• *The role. The highest\-leverage seat in the company:** you ship things real users feel within weeks, not quarters, and the systems you bootstrap become the agents thousands of JLL employees rely on every day.

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

At JLL, we harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to efficiently accelerate meaningful connections between candidates and opportunities. Using AI capabilities, we analyze your application for relevant skills, experiences, and qualifications to generate valuable insights about how your unique profile aligns with the specific requirements of the role you're pursuing.

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements below. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

Personalized benefits that support personal well\-being and growth

JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health.

About JLL –

We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 102,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people, and our communities.

Our core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do and we’re honored to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.

Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.